I have made the point that we accept the case that sometimes compulsion is necessary. The point is that it needs to be subject to stringent safeguards. It is the Government who talk the whole time about public safety. It seems to me to be distorting the debate to talk only about those cases. In my contributions, I was seeking to address the point made by the Government that the public will be less safe if the Government do not get their way. That palpably is not the case.
Mental Health Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Norman Lamb
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 16 April 2007.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Mental Health Bill [HL].
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